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Translation and Identity: Transforming the Personal toward the National and the Global

This roundtable session will explore translation as a transformative and creative process within personal, national and/or global contexts. We will discuss the role translation plays in the establishment of identity (one's own and that of the target culture/language), the enhancement of intercultural dialogue, and the promotion of mutual empathy through communicative performance, in-service learning and study abroad experiences, as well as textual translation. We will also examine the heightened role and new significance of translation within the ever changing global reality.

We welcome a variety of perspectives and disciplines to this conversation, including, but not limited to, cultural and ethnic studies, linguistics, literature and gender studies.